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The propagation of electrostatic waves in an unmagnetized collisionless pair-ion plasma with immobile positively charged dusts is studied for both large- and small-amplitude perturbations. Using a two-fluid model for pair-ions, it is shown…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-10-18 A. P. Misra , N. C. Adhikary

Protons in the solar corona and heliosphere exhibit anisotropic velocity distributions, violation of magnetic moment conservation, and a general lack of thermal equilibrium with the other particle species. There is no agreement about the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Steven R. Cranmer

Ion-acoustic waves are routinely observed at collisionless shocks and could be an important source of resistivity. The source of instability and the effects of the waves are not fully understood. We show, using Magnetospheric Multiscale…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Daniel B. Graham , Yuri V. Khotyaintsev , Ahmad Lalti

Suprathermal electrons and inertial drifting electrons, so called electron beam, are crucial to the nonlinear dynamics of electrostatic solitary waves observed in several astrophysical plasmas. In this paper, the propagation of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-27 Ashkbiz Danehkar

Early results concerning the shape and stability of ion acoustic waves are generalized to propagation at an angle to the magnetic field lines. Each wave has a critical angle for stability. Known soliton results are recovered as special…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-02-08 Piotr Goldstein , Eryk Infeld

We investigate the nature of dissipative instability at the boundary (seen here as tangential discontinuity) between the viscous corona and the partially ionised prominence plasma in the incompressible limit. The importance of the partial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Istvan Ballai , Ramon Oliver , Marios Alexandrou

Magnetic-field generation by a relativistic ion beam propagating through an electron-ion plasma along a homogeneous magnetic field is investigated with 2.5D high-resolution particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. The studies test predictions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Jacek Niemiec , Martin Pohl , Antoine Bret , Thomas Stroman

In the paper within the approximation of the two-fluid magnetohydrodynamics and geometrooptical approximation the dispersion relation was found for ionacoustic instabilities of the ionospheric plasma at 80-200km altitudes in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-04-07 Oleg I. Berngardt , Alexander P. Potekhin

Recent in situ observations from Parker Solar Probe (PSP) near perihelia reveal ion beams, temperature anisotropies, and kinetic wave activity. These features are likely linked to solar wind heating and acceleration. During PSP Encounter 17…

We investigate the nature of dissipative instability appearing in a prominence planar thread filled with partially ionised plasma in the incompressible limit. The importance of partial ionisation is investigated in terms of the ionisation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 I. Ballai , B. Pinter , R. Oliver , M. Alexandrou

This present study deals with the dissipative instability that appears in a compressible partially ionised plasma slab embedded in a uniform magnetic field, modelling the state of the plasma in solar prominences. In the partially ionised…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 J. F. Mather , I. Ballai , R. Erdelyi

The nonlinear propagation of two-dimensional (2D) quantum ion-acoustic waves (QIAWs) is studied in a quantum electron-ion plasma. By using a 2D quantum hydrodynamic model and the method of multiple scales, a new set of coupled nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-12-23 Amar P. Misra , Mattias Marklund , Gert Brodin , Padma K. Shukla

This paper summarizes the studies of plasma kinetic instabilities in the electron cyclotron frequency range carried out over the last decade at the Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences. We investigate the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 A G Shalashov , M E Viktorov , D A Mansfeld , S V Golubev

The problem of hydrogen neutrals interacting with the heliospheric bow shock region has received considerable attention recently, motivated primarily by the hope that the Voyager spacecraft may soon encounter the first of the heliospheric…

Space Physics · Physics 2008-04-03 Dastgeer Shaikh , G. P. Zank , N. Pogorelov

In-situ observations of the solar wind (SW) plasma from 0.29 to 1AU show that the protons and alpha particles are often non-Maxwellian, with evidence of kinetic instabilities, temperature anisotropies, differential ion streaming, and…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Leon Ofman

The properties of low-frequency convective fluctuations and transport are investigated for the boundary region of magnetized plasmas. We employ a two-dimensional fluid model for the evolution of the global plasma quantities in a geometry…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Odd Erik Garcia , Volker Naulin , Anders Henry Nielsen , Jens Juul Rasmussen

The dust-acoustic waves and their stability in the permeating dusty plasma with the Maxwellian velocity distribution are investigated. We derive the dust-acoustic wave frequency and instability growth rate in two limiting physical cases…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Jingyu Gong , Zhipeng Liu , Jiulin Du

The growth of electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves (EMIC) due to a ring distribution of Hydrogen ions is examined. Though these distributions are more commonly implicated in the generation of equatorial noise, their potential for exciting…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Manish Mithaiwala , Chris Crabtree , Gurudas Ganguli , Leonid Rudakov , Kunihiro Keika

Finite-amplitude low-frequency Alfv\'en waves are commonly found in plasma environments, such as space plasmas, and play a crucial role in ion heating. The nonlinear interaction between oblique Alfv\'en wave spectra and ions has been…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Jingyu Peng , Jiansen He

Previous studies of phase mixing of ion cyclotron (IC), Alfv\'enic, waves in the collisionless regime have established the generation of parallel electric field and hence acceleration of electrons in the regions of transverse density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-23 D. Tsiklauri , T. Haruki